Do narcissist believe in God

Answer 1

God is everything the narcissist ever wants to be: omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, admired, much discussed, and awe inspiring. God is the narcissist's wet dream, his ultimate grandiose fantasy. But God comes handy in other ways as well.

The narcissist alternately idealizes and devalues figures of authority.

In the idealization phase, he strives to emulate them, he admires them, imitate them (often ludicrously), and defends them. They cannot go wrong, or be wrong. The narcissist regards them as bigger than life, infallible, perfect, whole, and brilliant. But as the narcissist's unrealistic and inflated expectations are inevitably frustrated, he begins to devalue his former idols.

Now they are "human" (to the narcissist, a derogatory term). They are small, fragile, error-prone, pusillanimous, mean, dumb, and mediocre. The narcissist goes through the same cycle in his relationship with God, the quintessential authority figure.

But often, even when disillusionment and iconoclastic despair have set in -- the narcissist continues to pretend to love God and follow Him. The narcissist maintains this deception because his continued proximity to God confers on him authority. Priests, leaders of the congregation, preachers, evangelists, cultists, politicians, intellectuals -- all derive authority from their allegedly privileged relationship with God.

Religious authority allows the narcissist to indulge his sadistic urges and to exercise his misogynism freely and openly. Such a narcissist is likely to taunt and torment his followers, hector and chastise them, humiliate and berate them, abuse them spiritually, or even sexually. The narcissist whose source of authority is religious is looking for obedient and unquestioning slaves upon whom to exercise his capricious and wicked mastery. The narcissist transforms even the most innocuous and pure religious sentiments into a cultish ritual and a virulent hierarchy. He prays on the gullible. His flock become his hostages.

Religious authority also secures the narcissist's narcissistic supply. His coreligionists, members of his congregation, his parish, his constituency, his audience -- are transformed into loyal and stable sources of narcissistic supply. They obey his commands, heed his admonitions, follow his creed, admire his personality, applaud his personal traits, satisfy his needs (sometimes even his carnal desires), revere and idolize him.

Moreover, being a part of a "bigger thing" is very gratifying narcissistically. Being a particle of God, being immersed in His grandeur, experiencing His power and blessings first hand, communing with him -- are all sources of unending narcissistic supply. The narcissist becomes God by observing His commandments, following His instructions, loving Him, obeying Him, succumbing to Him, merging with Him, communicating with Him -- or even by defying him (the bigger the narcissist's enemy -- the more grandiosely important the narcissist feels).

Like everything else in the narcissist's life, he mutates God into a kind of Inverted Narcissist. God becomes his dominant source of supply. He forms a personal relationship with this overwhelming and overpowering entity -- in order to overwhelm and overpower others. He becomes God vicariously, by the proxy of his relationship with Him. He idealizes God, then devalues Him, then abuses him. This is the classic narcissistic pattern and even God himself cannot escape it.

Based on my book "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited"

(c) 2003 Lidija Rangelovska Narcissus Publications

No, there is only room for 1 God in the universe. Them.

Here is a direct quote from an N that I know.

"Religion is for weak people and women. Jesus was a very clever man because he found a way to get famous forever. All those rules in The Bible are just so power figures can have control and use it to control the weak. There are so many stupid meaningless rules, like women can't wear make-up or bikinis cause it causes strife in the village with all the women that can't fit into bikinis, then jealousy is evil, so that should make the anit-binkini women evil, but somehow it makes the binkini women evil. It's just too complicated. Plus I don't want to give my money to a church."

My ex used his 'direct communication' with God as a way to justify his actions and his cruel treatment of me. How could I ague with that? Well, I tried, but then he saw me as spiritually less advanced than him. In his public life he fronts organisations and initiatives that seek to promote human and religious understanding - oh, the irony of it all!

Answer 2

I believe narcissists generally do NOT have obsessions with religion, or any religion at all - they are the supreme authority in their life.

Yes they can mine claimed to be christian. Prayed before meals watched some joyce woman every morning on tv. But heres the thing. She said she would never stay with someone who cheated on her or betrayed her in anyway because she was a proud woman. Which seemed strange to me she was very cold about alot things and related it to pride. Now, cheating is bad we all know that. But she was very stern and we all know not everything is black and white. People do stray from relationships and manage to work things out. Now dont everyone jump in and say i must be a cheater i never have but i have been cheated on so i know what its like. Now when I look back it wasn't pride it was the lack of ability to forgive which is what religion teaches us. Once a N has been "Injured" in anyway look out because they r not forgiving. And there were many other areas how she wud treat me badly. So imo she claimed to be christian, and was a different person in front of friends and regular people as a front. To hide who she was behind closed doors. And by the way, she cheated on me so they can claim to be christian all they want u have to follow it up with actions which she couldn't. She was brought up with parents who pushed religion. I remember her telling me once when she was yound she wud cry at night and tell her parents she was afraid of going to hell. So its really the fear of that which makes her try to convince herself shes a christian but she certainly doesn't follow the golden rule she makes up her own rules. And reserves the right to change the rules at anytime to suit her.